1.Len #Blavatnik owns a company called Al-Altep Holdings and Access Industries, and has contributed vast amounts of money to the #GOP and #Senate Leadership Fund and #Trump, inclusive of 1 Million to the Inauguration of #Trump.

#Blavatnik contributed $1.5 million to #GOP#Senate Leadership Fund PAC in the name of Access Industries and $1 million in the name of AI-Altep Holdings

11.From September 2017 until now #Blavatnik had contributed another $1 million through AI–Altep.

12.#Blavatnik contributed a total of $1.5 million to a Marco #Rubio PAC, He contributed $1.25 million to the Conservative Solutions PAC in the name of Access Industries, then another $250,000 to the Florida First Project via AI-Altep Holdings.

20.The email was dated July 7, 2016, just two weeks before #Trump accepted the nomination, #Manafort asked an overseas intermediary to pass a message on to #Deripaska: "If #Deripaska needs private briefings, tell him we can accommodate."

22..#Deripaska,married the daughter of an adviser to #Yeltsin in 2001, is one of #Putin’s favorite oligarchs. He is the founder and majority shareholder of #Rusal.#VTB owns 3.8 percent of #Deripaska’s holding company, En+Group.

29.Again Intrater (#Vekselberg’s American cousin).He contributed $250,000 to #Trump’s Inaugural Committee. he donated $35,000 to the #Trump Victory Fund, $29,600 to the RNC and $2,700 to the Donald J. #Trump for President Campaign.

31..Yuri #Milner befriended #Zuckerberg in 2009 and became one of the company’s largest investors. #Milner invested $850,000 of his personal funds into a real estate startup, #Cadre, which Jared #Kushner co-owns, and failed to disclose when joining the #WhiteHouse

32..#VTB quietly transferred $191 million into an offshore company based in the Isle of Man which Yuri #Milner then used to fund nearly half of a purchase of #Twitter in 2011 through his investment fund, #DST.

33.#Gazprom’s investment subsidiary transferred $920 million to an offshore company in the Isle of Man, Kanton Services, which Yuri #Milner then channeled into #Facebook through his investment fund, #DST. The investment by #Gazprom funded $1 billion worth of #Facebook shares.

35.#Gazprom supplies 25% of Western Europe’s natural gas. #Gazprom’s investment subsidiary managed by Alisher #Usmanov with close ties to the #Kremlin, transferred $920 million to an offshore company in the Isle of Man, Kanton Services, which #Milner then channeled into #Facebook

36..Carter #Page made several trips to #Russia in the summer of 2016. He has deep financial ties to #Gazprom.

37.#Cyprus has a long history as a conduit for dirty money flowing in and out of #Russia. The Bank of #Cyprus is the largest bank in the country and the nation’s leader in deceptive financial practices.

38.Wilbur #Ross served as co-chair of the Bank of #Cyprus from July 2014 until March 2017.

39.Vladimir Strzhalkovsky, a former #KGB agent and long-time associate of #Putin, served as #Ross’s first co-chair until June of 2015.

1.Sergei #Skripal's fellow Russian exile Valery Morozov has told Channel 4 News that Sergei #Skripal was not retired, and remained in contact with military intelligence officers at the #Russian Embassy

*Could it be* that it has something to do with defending their funders' interests?
Today, I'm going to tell you the Thick Tanks' Hydra tale.
Featuring Atlas, huge piles of money, tradition, "free speech", useful idiots and a very clear agenda that Brexit/Trump are a part of.
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Take a seat: It's a long story, with a lot of players, including politicians, pretty ladies squatting your TV, the climate change denial's network, the global fascist movement, Silicon Valley/multiname data-stealing/misusing company & private companies' involved in elections.
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THREAD #Russia 14 POINTS #Maps+ critical #Geography#Geopolitics. Here is my hot take on “Understanding Russia,” a new book by Marlene Laruelle (@PONARS) and Jean Radvanyi (2018). I hardly agree w/ all "French Eurasia" & "anti-Russophobe" arguments; it IS worth a CLOSE read. 1/16

2. (1954-91) One can consider, for the sake of argument, a postwar Moscow-Paris-Washington axis. The “disease” that neo-Empire Russia(ns) have is "trauma," a kind of geo-body loss, historically akin to French postcolonial retrenchment in proto-EU after the Algerian War. 3/16

2.#US efforts to counter any attempt to challenge unipolar world w any means incl military largely define political situation in the world.It contradicts views of many states, incl #Russia which finds [US] dictation unacceptable & is for just "world order"

3.The basis for rising inter-state rivalry r non-mil means:pol,econ, info yet they constantly backed up by force/threats to use it.Rivalry now spans all areas:diplomacy,culture, sports,science.#US,allies use force in violation of interntl law o rby interpreting it 2 its own needs

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TRUMP IS CONNECTED TO RUSSIAN MAFIA1) GPS/Simpson Testimony
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6 A. It was, broadly speaking, a kind of
7 holistic examination of Donald Trump's business
8 record and his associations, his bankruptcies, his
9 suppliers, you know, offshore or third-world

2) #TrumpRussiaConspiracy
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10 suppliers of products that he was selling. You
11 know, it evolved somewhat quickly into issues of
12 his relationships to organized crime figures but,
13 you know, really the gamut of Donald Trump.

3) #TrumpRussiaConspiracy
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started boning up on Donald Trump, you know, I
19 found various references to him having connections
20 to Italian organized crime and later to a Russian
21 organized crime figure named Felix Sater,

National politics correspondent for Newsweek, Nina Burleigh, with a fun find on a TV above the bar at the Trump Hotel DC bit.ly/2E37QRR

Two errors in the 2nd graf of Breitbart's Trump Hotel DC article:
-holdings aren't out of @realDonaldTrump's hands: trust isn't blind & he can profit from it
-Trump Org told Congress it was estimating foreign receipts—not auto donating in fullbit.ly/2CpL7z2